Advanced C++ Development Techniques

You must have solid and genuine experience of C++ including class definitions and member functions, constructors and destructors, references, virtual functions and new and delete operators.

Delegates will learn how to

* Describe advanced inheritance issues, such as private inheritance, multiple inheritance, and virtual base classes
* Use advanced C++ language features and programming techniques, such as Run-Time Type Identification (RTTI), smart pointers and delegation
* Use different memory management techniques and strategies to customise and optimise memory usage in a C++ program
* Design, implement and use template functions and template classes
* Take advantage of the standard C++ library
* Design and use container classes and iterators
* Use C++ exceptions to simplify error handling in large programs

C++ is the standard language for implementing object-oriented designs, but although based on C, C++ introduces many subtle syntactic and design issues. For developers whose C++ experience goes back further, many of the changes as a result of standardisation make standard C++ a very different programming environment.

This course will keep the audience abreast of these changes. It covers four main areas: new and advanced language features; using the standard library; implementing object-oriented concepts and patterns in C++; effective C++ programming techniques and idioms. It also suggests ways to maximise efficiency, code quality, and reusability.

Delegates will gain a greater understanding of the capabilities and potential pitfalls of the C++ language and will be more able to use C++ language features to write robust, quality software and you will also have a good grounding to make the best use of specific component technologies, such as COM and CORBA.